May 22 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: At Cincinnati, Reds ace Noodles Hahn strikes out 16 Boston batters en route to a 4 - 3 Reds win. The 16 K's will stand as the club record until matched by Jim Maloney in 1963.
1902: Hall of Famer Al Simmons was born this day in Milwaukee, WI. He set an MLB record by reaching 100 RBIs in his first eleven MLB seasons (1924-34). Simmons reached 1,500 hits in 1,040 games, the quickest player to 1,500 hits in MLB history. He was also the quickest player to reach 2,000 hits in MLB modern history, he did so in 1390 games. Six 200 Hit seasons, Simmons led the league two times in Hits, Batting Average, and Total Bases. Held the A.L. record for hits by a right handed batter until Al Kaline broke it and passed by several since. Career .334/.380/.535/.915
Voted to the Hall of Fame in 1953.
1907: American League umpire Billy Evans needs a police escort after argumentative Detroit Tigers manager Hughie Jennings incites a riot. Jennings will be suspended.
1919: Tigers Star Left fielder Bobby Veach gets his 1,000th career hit.
1922: The Yankees, who have been sharing the Polo Grounds with the Giants since 1913, begin construction on their own stadium in the Bronx.
1923: In a Negro National League game at St. Louis' Stars Park, Chicago American Giants CF Cristobal Torriente hits for the cycle, scoring three and batting in seven runs. He finishes his offensive outburst with a homer in the top of the 9th to give the American Giants an 11 - 10 lead. In the bottom of the 9th, Jack Marshall gets into a jam and Torriente comes in with two out and runners on second and third base. With Cool Papa Bell at the plate, Torriente promptly goes from hero to goat in the space of two pitches, both of them wild, allowing the tying and winning runs to score easily.
1926: On Rogers Hornsby Day in St. Louis, the Cards player-manager is presented $1,000 in gold and a medal as the National League MVP for 1925. The Cards then whip the Phillies, 9 - 2.
1930: In Philadelphia, the Yankees and the Athletics continue the home run barrage as the Yankees take both games of a second straight doubleheader, 10 - 1 and 20 - 13. Babe Ruth hits a pair of home runs in the opener, as does Ben Chapman and winning pitcher George Pipgras. The Yanks score nine runs in the first two innings of the second game, but the A's come back to tie it at 12 apiece. The Yanks win the assault, 20 - 13, as Tony Lazzeri is 4 for 4, scores five runs, and knocks in 4. Ruth hits another in the second game, while Lou Gehrig powers three round trippers to drive in eight runs. On the A's side, Jimmie Foxx has two homers to drive in six runs. For the afternoon, the teams combine to hit 14 round trippers, a then-record 10 in the nitecap.
1933: Joe Sewell of the Yankees fans for the first time this season, a 3 - 0 win behind Lefty Gomez over Cleveland. Sewell will strike out only three more times in 524 at bats this year.
1934: The Indians stop the Yankees, 5 - 1, with Lou Gehrig driving in the lone run for New York. For the second time in his career, Lou has driven in at least one run a game for 10 straight games.
1937: Facing Wes Ferrell in Boston, Hank Greenberg hits a long centerfield home run out of Fenway Park. It exits to the right of the flag pole and is called the longest home run ever hit at Fenway. Gee Walker has three hits to run his hitting streak to 26 straight games, but the Red Sox counter with 14 hits of their own to win, 11 - 9. Walker's streak will end on the 24th after 27 games.
1938: White Sox pitcher Ted Lyons records his 200th career win, beating the Senators, 9 - 2.
1940: Oakland (PCL) purchased Cotton Pippen from the Detroit Tigers.
1942: The Detroit Tigers signed Charlie Gehringer as a free agent.
1942: Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams is sworn into the U.S. Naval Reserve. He'd win the '42 American League Triple Crown before being called for active duty in WWII, causing him to miss the next three seasons to military service.
1946: Josh Gibson's historic home run helps the defending Negro National League Champion Homestead Grays prevail against the New York Black Yankees. Gibson, reports the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "hit one of the longest home runs ever poled at Forbes Field when he thrilled the crowd of 5,000 by driving one 450 feet over the left-center wall." This estimate is almost certainly understated, and perhaps by quite a bit.
1949: Brooklyn's Don Newcombe makes his first major league start a dandy, shutting out the Reds, 3 - 0, in Cincinnati. It's the first shutout in a National League debut in eleven years and extends Brooklyn's win streak at Cincinnati to 19 games going back to June 1947. Newk gives up hits to the first two batters, then allows just three more hits while walking none. He drives in two runs as well.
1952: The Celler committee finds legislation for government control of baseball to be unnecessary. It says that the sport can solve its own problems, and opposes legislation exempting the reserve clause from antitrust laws.
1954: At Yankee Stadium, Allie Reynolds tosses a seven-hit shutout over the Red Sox to win, 7 - 0. Mickey Mantle is the offense, going 4 for 5 with four RBIs. Mick will knock in 10 runs in the three-game series against the Red Sox.
1956: Detroit's Red Wilson belts a two-run home run in the bottom of the 9th to give the Tigers a 3 - 2 win against the Yankees. The loss goes to Whitey Ford, his first following six wins. Ford had given up just five earned runs through 54 innings before today.
1957: The Red Sox set an American League record by smashing four home runs in the 6th inning in an 11 - 0 win over Cleveland. Gene Mauch, Ted Williams, Dick Gernert and Frank Malzone do the honors. All of these come on the first 16 pitches from Cal McLish. Williams had set the record with Jimmie Foxx, Joe Cronin and Jim Tabor in 1940.
1958: Ted Williams hits his 16th career grand slam to provide the Red Sox with the margin in an 8 - 5 win over the A's. Ted's 4th-inning blast, off Jack Urban, ties him with Babe Ruth for second place on the career slam list.
1959: Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm one-hits the Yankees, 5 - 0, with Jerry Lumpe's single in the 8th the spoiler. Switch-hitter Mickey Mantle hits righty against Wilhelm and does no better than he has been lefty. On May 28th, Wilhelm will beat the Yankees again, 5 - 0.
1960: With Rocky Colavito on the bench because of poor hitting, the Tigers sweep the visiting Red Sox, 6 - 2 and 5 - 2. Boston has now lost nine straight and will extend that to 10 games before winning. Jim Bunning and Hank Aguirre notch the wins, as the Hubmen strand 15 runners in the nitecap.
1961: Tigers 10 - Athletics 2. Tigers score 6 runs in the 5th inning. Chico Fernandez finishes 3-for-5 with a double. Phil Regan pitches a 5-hit complete game. 2nd straight win: Tigers are 25-11, up 3.5 in the AL.
1962: Roger Maris, who went all of 1961 without receiving an intentional walk, gets four in a 12-inning, 2 - 1 win against the Angels to set an American League record. Maris receives five walks in all. Four Yankee pitchers (Whitey Ford, Jim Coates, Bud Daley and Bob Turley) combine to give up just one hit in 12 innings. Ford leaves after seven innings because of back spasms.
1965: Jim Northrup hits his first career home run in the Tigers 8 -4 win over the orioles.
1970: The Detroit Tigers traded Fred Lasher to the Cleveland Indians for Russ Nagelson and Billy Rohr.
1971: The Oakland Athletics traded John Donaldson to the Detroit Tigers for Daryl Patterson.
1984: Tigers 3 - Angels 1. Tigers are one win away from tying the 1912 Senators' record of 16 straight road wins.
Juan Berenguer strikes out 9 in 6 innings, Aurelio Lopez earns a 3-inning save. Tigers are 33-5.
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1985: The Detroit Tigers returned Jim Weaver (earlier draft pick) to the Minnesota Twins.
1990: Andre Dawson sets a major-league record when he is intentionally walked five times during a 16-inning, 2 - 1 Cubs win over the Reds. Cincinnati issues seven intentional passes altogether to tie a major-league record set by Houston in 1984.
2002: The Tigers defeat the Indians, 2 - 0, on Jeff Weaver's one-hitter. OF Chris Magruder's double with two outs in the 8th inning in his Cleveland debut is the Tribe's only hit.
2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Jair Jurrjens as an amateur free agent.
2008: Ken Griffey Jr. hits his 200th home run as a member of the Cincinnati Reds. He becomes the fourth player in major league history to hit 300 for one team and 200 with another.
2013: Known for his tape-measure blasts, Miguel Cabrera gets some help from Indians CF Michael Bourn in knocking one out in the 8th, as Bourn is about to make the catch at the warning track when the ball bounces off his glove and into the stands for a home run. Detroit wins, 11 - 7. The game is delayed by rain for over an hour in the 5th inning, but Justin Verlander still returns to record the final two outs of the frame, thus qualifying for the win; there is another 48-minute delay in the 8th but the game is played to its conclusion.
2014: Infielder Danny Worth strikes out 2 in his first major league pitching appearance in a 9-2 loss to the Rangers.
2016: 89-year-old Hermina Hirsch, a Holocaust survivor, sings the national anthem at Comerica Park.
Miguel Cabrera goes 3-for-3 with a home run and an RBI single in the Tigers' 9-4 win over the rays.
2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Kevin Chapman as a free agent.
2019: A portion of Canfield Street is named Willie Horton Drive.
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